Because of this temporary trend that many dealers are being guided into by different initiatives wholesale less, retail illogical units based on their brand, fewer and fewer real cars are turning up at auctions (I say temporary because sooner or later this fad will  catch up with them and we’ll be back to business as usual.  It’s actually happening now in many cases).  If you took a few minutes to look at pre-sale inventory there is close to nothing other than units that are one click off of industrial waste offered for sale at auction. When you look at what’s for sale at the average auction it is a raft of rental slugs, 150,000 mile junks, and anything that is almost a car has a bad Car Fax. 

Just like every week, 52 per year, we have 600 units at Manheim.  I am sitting in the office reviewing the merch.  I am not bragging, but I believe the group we pinched a spectacular group.  They are 100% unique in that there in not a single auction in North America that even gets close the volume, depth, quality, and transparency than this group.  Best of all they will all have new owner’s by Friday, every one of them.  There is no other venue in the country that can make this claim.  We are taking no hostages. 

In addition,  none of what we are selling have been offered for sale on OVE, Open Lane, or anyplace else.  They are straight off the street (this week, motor still warm from being traded) and in open commerce for the first time.  And by the way, as always, we tell you when we know a unit has a caution on Car Fax as I am not in the trickster business.   I believe I am the only seller in the country that announces the fact when there is a car that has a caution on Car Fax.  We don’t just tell you the positive, I tell you the negative…and price those bitches to sell, not to trick.  There are no sunglasses and mustache packages on these hamburgs. 

Special bonus:  If you know of someone else that, by design, discloses a negative hit on Car Fax I would love to know who it is.  Please email me, I’ll send you a $500 reward (must be documented). 

As fewer real cars are showing up at the auction we continue to buck the trend.  We have 600  units, 350 are under 30,000 miles.    All of them are first time to the market, priced to the current market and will be sold.  As always, we are the nation’s highest volume, highest conversion seller.  Not just at Manheim, but anywhere.  I don’t put signs up acting like I am selling, I actually sell.  Talking the talk is a light year away from walking the walk.  It’s why an original Picasso costs millions and a photograph of one  is free, one is real and the other is bull dung.   

Before you log into our lanes, do some pre-sale research around the country.  There is nothing but hogs, off lease rerun duplicates, and sellers looking to get double retail for shop rejected doinkers.  Then look again just to be sure.  After that, log into our party.  As hard to believe as it seems, just like a factory, out pops a string of wild merch getting sold for too much, too little, on the money, or whatever, but really getting sold, not talking BS and wasting your time.  Sit back, get your favorite beverage, or case thereof, order some take-out and enjoy the show, taking the doe and letting them go (I am a wholesaler, never claimed to be a poet).

I would love to see your face at our place, the 17545, but if you can’t make it, log on the our sale on Simulcast.  Have fun, pay attention, and pinch a few for yourself. 

I hope you are having fun, I am still having a ball.